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Excel Analyst

Excel Analyst

Hire a professional Excel Analyst to bridge the gap between raw data and the strategic financial models your leadership team needs to make.

Expert Excel Analyst for Precise Financial Insights

Report Simple provides expert Excel Analysts to augment your existing team, delivering immediate technical proficiency and data modelling capabilities. We bridge the gap between complex raw data and clear strategic insights, ensuring your Australian operations run on accurate, automated, and audit-ready financial models.

Automate Reporting

Hire an Excel analyst to build automated reporting templates that refresh at the click of a button, ensuring your data is always up to date.

Dynamic Visualisation

We design dynamic visualisations using PivotCharts and conditional formatting to help you see the story behind your numbers clearly.

Actionable Intelligence

As a specialist Excel analyst, I provide the actionable intelligence required to make data-backed decisions for your business.

Maximise ROI

Maximise your ROI by uncovering cost-saving opportunities through professional Excel analysis and financial modelling.

Seamless Integration

I provide seamless integration solutions to link your Excel spreadsheets with live data feeds and other office applications.

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Our Excel Consulting Services

Advanced Financial Modelling

Build robust, audit-ready financial models that support critical business decisions and scenario planning. We ensure formula integrity and scalability for long-term strategic use.

Macro & Scripting Analysis

Eliminate repetitive manual data entry by deploying custom VBA scripts and macros. We streamline your workflows to save countless hours and reduce human error.

Interactive Dashboard Design

Transform static spreadsheets into dynamic, visually engaging dashboards that provide real-time visibility into KPIs. We structure data to allow stakeholders to drill down into metrics easily.

Data Cleaning & Migration

Sanitise messy datasets and prepare legacy information for migration to modern systems or cloud platforms. Our analysts ensure data quality and consistency across your organisation.

Power Query & Power Pivot

Leverage modern features to handle large datasets without compromising performance. We connect disparate data sources to create a unified source of truth within your familiar environment.

190+ Australian Enterprises Choose Report Simple. 

570+ Successful Projects

We bring deep experience to every engagement, having delivered hundreds of scalable analytics solutions across government and private sectors.

100% Australian Owned

We don't farm your data out to offshore teams. Our team is Australian-based, ensuring clear communication, local timezone alignment, and strict data sovereignty.

Your Tenant, Your IP

We build inside your environment so the solution is entirely yours - code, models, and IP. You stay in control, with the freedom to continue independently.

Matt Lazarus Report Simple

We believe data should empower, not overwhelm. Simplicity is in our DNA.

Matt Lazarus

Founder of Report Simple

Collaborating with Report Simple lifted our marketing data strategy to a whole new level... The results speak for themselves with a 62% increase in ROI.

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Our Proven Excel Analyst Engagement Process

We utilise a structured onboarding and delivery methodology to ensure our analysts integrate seamlessly into your team and deliver immediate value from day one.

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Discovery & Needs Assessment

We begin by auditing your current spreadsheet ecosystem and identifying the specific skill gaps within your team. This ensures we match you with an analyst possessing the exact VBA, financial modelling, or data visualisation expertise required.

Integration & Development
2

Our experts rapidly integrate with your workflows, implementing best-practice data governance while building or optimising your solutions. We focus on documentation and knowledge transfer to prevent dependency on "black box" spreadsheets.

Optimisation & Handoff
3

Once the models or automation scripts are deployed and stress-tested, we refine performance for speed and accuracy. We conclude with a comprehensive handover phase, ensuring your internal team is fully upskilled to maintain the solution.

Excel Analyst FAQs

Can an Analyst help integrate data from Salesforce, HubSpot or Xero?

Manual data export (and the subsequent copy-pasting) is a massive time sink for IT teams. Our analysts build dynamic connections using Power Query and API scripts to ensure your workbooks reflect real-time figures from your core business systems.

  • Automated Ingestion: We set up refreshable data pipelines that pull directly from sources like Salesforce or Xero without user intervention.

  • Error Reduction: By removing human touchpoints in the data gathering phase, we drastically reduce the risk of formula errors.

  • Blended Views: We can merge data from multiple platforms (e.g. HubSpot marketing data vs NetSuite financials) into a single cohesive report.

How fast can you deploy an Excel Analyst to our project?

We understand that IT backlogs move quickly and resource gaps need immediate filling. Typically, we can have a vetted specialist briefed and ready to start within 48 hours of our initial agreement. We maintain a bench of pre-qualified experts to ensure you aren't waiting weeks for recruitment cycles to finish, allowing you to maintain momentum on critical deliverables.

Does your Analyst provide documentation and training for our staff?

We refuse to build "black box" solutions that only the creator understands. Every deliverable comes with clear Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and inline comments to ensure your internal team can maintain and modify the tools long after our engagement ends.


We also offer handover sessions to upskill your current staff on the new workflows. If you need a structured training programme for your team, please contact our team to discuss a tailored handover package.

Can an Excel Analyst help with Microsoft Fabric migration?

Excel is often the prototyping ground for enterprise data solutions before they move to the cloud. Our analysts are skilled in cleaning and structuring flat-file data to ensure it is ready for ingestion into a OneLake environment or a data warehouse.


This bridge between desktop analysis and cloud infrastructure is a core part of our Microsoft Fabric consulting. We help you transition from heavy spreadsheets to scalable, governed data models without losing historical context.

How do you ensure the Excel Analyst understands our specific industry?

Context is king when interpreting data. We match analysts based on sector experience so they understand your specific KPIs, acronyms and regulatory requirements immediately, rather than spending the first week learning your vernacular.

  • Retail & Sales: expertise in inventory turn, basket analysis and seasonal forecasting (see our retail solutions).

  • Financial Services: Deep knowledge of compliance reporting, loan amortisation schedules and risk modelling.

  • Resource Sectors: Experience with production reporting and safety data analysis for oil and gas or mining clients.

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  • Power BI - elevate analysis from small teams to enterprise-grade reporting

  • Azure - modernise legacy data storage with scalable cloud-native analytics

  • Power Automate - trigger workflows across Microsoft 365 apps directly from your data

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